Asia's Population Seen At 3.8 Billion by 2000

BANGKOK, Thailand, Oct., 28 (Reuters).—By the year 2000 Asia's population will increase to more than the 1970 total world population, a study released here yesterday predicted.

It will go up to 3.8 billion people. The world's population in 1970 was 3.6 billion.

The study, by the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, states: “It is the rapid decline in mortality following the Second World War which has changed the course of demographic history.”

The report finds a striking difference between the more developed and less developed parts of the world in the percentage increases of population foreseen for the entire century between 1900 and 2,000.

In the more developed regions, population is expected to show a rise of 158 per cent during the century, compared with an increase 363t per cent in the less developed regions.

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